Amish Tripathi Quotes
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong.
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My role model is Sly Stallone.
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
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Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.
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Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.
